Image capturing apparatus, system, and method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiko Mimura
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing portion, a controller to perform image processing to obtain a feature value from image data, and a storage device to accumulate the image data. In an image capturing period of capturing an image of the target object by the image capturing portion, the controller transmits a result of the image processing to a data management server while accumulating the captured image data the storage device, while in an image capturing suspension period of not performing image capturing, the controller transmits the image data accumulated in the storage device to the data management server.
Claims34
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing portion;
- and
- an image processing portion configured to perform image processing on image data obtained by the image capturing portion,
- wherein the image data includes (1) first data which corresponds to a first image and (2) second data which corresponds to a second image different from the first image,
- wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to transmit, in a first period, (1) not the first data or image data based on the first data but a first result of image processing by the image processing portion on the first data, and (2) not the second data or image data based on the second data but a second result of image processing by the image processing portion on the second data, and
- wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to transmit, in a second period after the first period, the first data.
A system comprising:
- an image capturing apparatus that is (a) configured to perform image capturing of an image, (b) configured to perform image processing on image data obtained by the image capturing, (c) configured to accumulate the image data, and (d) configured to communicate with a server via a network,
- wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to transmit to the server, in a first period, not the image data but a result of image processing by the image capturing apparatus on the image data, the result being a feature value of the image, and
- wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to transmit to the server, in a second period after the first period, the image data.
A method of producing a product, the method comprising:
- carrying out, in a first period, a production process for the product by using a production apparatus while monitoring a production state on a basis of a result of image processing performed on image data obtained by capturing an image of a target object by an image capturing apparatus, the image data including (1) first data which corresponds to a first image and (2) second data which corresponds to a second image different from the first image;
- and
- transmitting to a server, in not the first period but a second period after the first period, the first data and the second data from the image capturing apparatus,
- wherein the target object is the production apparatus or a workpiece for the product.
A system comprising:
- an image capturing apparatus (a) configured to perform image capturing of an image, (b) configured to perform image processing on raw image data obtained by image capturing, and (c) configured to communicate with a server,
- wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to transmit to the server, via a first network, not the raw image data but a result of image processing by the image capturing apparatus on the raw image data, the result not being image data based on the image, and
- wherein the image capturing apparatus is configured to transmit to the server, via a second network, the raw image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.